Ward, Richard <br/><br/>
A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse 

 - Basingstoke  Springer Nature  Palgrave Macmillan [Imprint]  2015 
 - 1 online resource (313 p.) 
 - Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife .
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<br/><br/> Through studies of beheaded Irish traitors, smugglers hung in chains on the English coast, suicides subjected to the surgeon's knife in Dresden and the burial of executed Nazi war criminals, this volume provides a fresh perspective on the history of capital punishment. This book has two open access chapters under a CC BY license. 
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<br/><br/><br/>eng 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781137443991 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1057/9781137444011  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capital punishment--History.<br/>Criminals--Death--History.<br/>Executions and executioners--History.<br/>Criminels--Mort--Histoire.<br/>Peine de mort--Histoire.<br/>Capital punishment<br/>Crime.<br/>Criminal law and procedure.<br/>Criminal law: procedure & offences.<br/>Criminal law: procedure and offences<br/>Criminal or forensic psychology.<br/>Criminal or forensic psychology.<br/>Criminal or forensic psychology<br/>Criminal procedure.<br/>Executions and executioners<br/>General & world history.<br/>General & world history<br/>General and world history.<br/>History: earliest times to present day.<br/>History: earliest times to present day<br/>History: specific events & topics<br/>History: specific events and topics.<br/>History.<br/>History<br/>Humanities.<br/>Humanities<br/>International criminal law.<br/>International law.<br/>International law<br/>Law.<br/>Law<br/>Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law<br/>Laws of Specific jurisdictions.<br/>Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900.<br/>Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900<br/>Penology & punishment.<br/>Psychology.<br/>Psychology<br/>Public international law: criminal law<br/>Public international law.<br/>Public international law<br/>Social & cultural history.<br/>Social & cultural history<br/>Social and cultural history.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Criminology.<br/>Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.<br/>Society and Social Sciences<br/>Capital Punishment--history<br/>Criminals--history
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>capital punishment execution history smugglers suicides traitors war criminals